2 Samuel 19:34

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But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

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Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.

The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you in Jerusalem at my side.”